[coreboot] Gigabyte MB to Test

Jeff Ausfeld jeffausfeld at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 01:00:25 CET 2018


Hi Taiidan,

I am not afraid about hard work and putting in the time.

Mini ITX Thin Client.  M.2 SSD, 2X mini pcie or 2X M. 2 Key or some combo,
 linux friendly.

Regards with thanks,
Jeff.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 7:26 PM Taiidan at gmx.com <Taiidan at gmx.com> wrote:

> Like nico said it would be quite difficult to do this yourself and not
> really worth the time, and for the price of contracting someone else or
> even spending the time yourself (vs working overtime hours) you could
> buy lots of boards with already done open source firmware that works
> perfectly. Literally for the price of a coreboot port for this board you
> could buy 20+ fully loaded TALOS 2 systems and 50+ KCMA-D8's.
>
> What exactly are you looking for in a board? I assume embedded? you can
> pick up a coreboot compatible AM1 (check the list) for quite cheap right
> now - if you require more expansion options and/or a BMC I would go with
> the KCMA-D8 which supports dual fanless capable 4 or 8 core 35W TDP
> CPU's and 128GB RAM - if you can find some they are a super great owner
> controlled libre firmware embedded/router platform and they support
> OpenBMC via a ASMB4 or ASMB5 module.
> Both systems have lots of AMD provided documentation as they are from
> right before when AMD stopped supporting the open source firmware
> community and of course the high performance TALOS 2 is also well
> documented (and has libre firmware) if you want something fast/not an
> embedded platform.
>
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